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Fair price for a butchered carcass
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It's called commerce. People buy stuff, add value and sell at a profit.
At the bottom end if the food chain farmers and stalkers are price takers. At the other end the retailers are price makers. Retailers will set the price at whatever they think the consumer will pay. They are obviously paying.
Dont blame the retailer for making a profit. Join him
I will correct you. If you have a large game hygiene certificate (which all but the earlier DSC1 courses include) and are registered as a food business with your local authority you can sell butchered game.
Wild game guidance
At the bottom end if the food chain farmers and stalkers are price takers. At the other end the retailers are price makers. Retailers will set the price at whatever they think the consumer will pay. They are obviously paying.
Dont blame the retailer for making a profit. Join him
I will correct you. If you have a large game hygiene certificate (which all but the earlier DSC1 courses include) and are registered as a food business with your local authority you can sell butchered game.
Wild game guidance
I charge £30 for muntjac quarterd + fillets vac packed
Bloody hell I've been robbing myself ,I charge a bottle of port or a couple of bottles of wine !! But looking on the bright side I don't pay for my stalking as I work on the farm which is 1000 acres and I shoot next door as well. I have a deal with the land owner next door ,he gets 2 Roe deer butchered free and I get back 1 full organic lamb. When I see what people are willing to pay for stalking ,I feel lucky just to get out and shoot when ever I want to for free .
TH4
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Where are you selling yours if your dealer is giving you £3.50 to £5.00 a kilo ?
Utectok
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Thanks
As a little comparison, I've just looked on the internet for lamb prices, average for the suppliers I looked at:
Half lamb £30-40 (18lb of meat average)
Full Lamb £115 -£140
As a former "Robbing B*****d", our prices for Roe lion was £26:50 /kg . Now considering all the costs to get a carcass to a saleable condition such as £5 / day to run a walk in chiller, waste disposal, business rates, wages, packaging etc, etc £60 for a well butchered and packaged Roe is a very reasonable price.
Bit of advice if you are selling frozen venison (pics in the first post), vac pack it. Otherwise it will get freezer burn, look crap and can discolour when defrosted.
Also in regards to butchers 95% of butchers in England and Wales are not licensed to accept carcasses in the skin. As mentioned earlier, unless supplied to immediate family or friends, to sell carcasses you must be registered as a food business and if you are skinning to supply butchers, you will also need an approved skinning area and storage.
Half lamb £30-40 (18lb of meat average)
Full Lamb £115 -£140
As a former "Robbing B*****d", our prices for Roe lion was £26:50 /kg . Now considering all the costs to get a carcass to a saleable condition such as £5 / day to run a walk in chiller, waste disposal, business rates, wages, packaging etc, etc £60 for a well butchered and packaged Roe is a very reasonable price.
Bit of advice if you are selling frozen venison (pics in the first post), vac pack it. Otherwise it will get freezer burn, look crap and can discolour when defrosted.
Also in regards to butchers 95% of butchers in England and Wales are not licensed to accept carcasses in the skin. As mentioned earlier, unless supplied to immediate family or friends, to sell carcasses you must be registered as a food business and if you are skinning to supply butchers, you will also need an approved skinning area and storage.
Coddy
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Im not and didnt say i was.
I get £2.75, or did the last time i was there a few months back before they shut for Covid.
The original question was for fully butchered deer, in proper packaging.
So for me, the 10kg of Muntjac or Roe as was the question is worth what i think, around £50, as there has been time and effort into butchering it and packaging it.
As said further on im getting around £40 (Average) for a Roe which os maybe 13-18kg range at the dealer.
If someone wants to skin and butcher a deer and then package it for free, upto them, crack on. I wouldn’t and either my family or my dogs will have a full belly.
I deal in Roe and Red with a customer base I’ve built up
I sell Roe loin (total) vaccuum packed for area of £50 depending on weight
Haunch steaks at £12 per lb
For the well presented stuff you’re showing (10 kg) I’d get in the area of £100
The critical thing seems to be able to supply when asked and for Customers to be happy with frozen product
Also to show legality to supply and provide provenance
Hope this helps
TH4
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It said 10kg larder weight in the op not butchered weight. So I was interested how you got £35 to £50. At 2.75 a kilo that's 27.50. You said 50.00 from the dealer, at 10kg larder weight that would be 5.00 a kilo
Turkish
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You're wrong. Register as a food business, level 1 and keep records. Small amounts locally...............
Coddy
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The original title is:
Fair price for a butchered carcass.
The question in the poll:
What would be a fair price to ask ................properly butchered, tray and cellophaned.
It then mentions from a 10kg larder weight Muntjac or Roe.
Never weighed a skin and skeleton but imagine 3kg there. So leaving 7kg of meat.
Either way, if i (me, no one else) had shot, hung, skinned, butchered, packaged a deer, i would not be looking for £2.00 - £3.00 per kg for it. (£21 top end for the 7kg).
Not worth the time and effort in MY opinion.
It would be in the freezer, turned into burgers, biltong or dog food.
If anyone else is happy to do all that for free, then they are welcome to crack on.
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Turkish
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This is getting interesting now. The odd beast here and there can't command the top end prices unless you have presentation spot on , and you have good clients.
That comes with practice and the balls to ask the right price. I always provide unfrozen chilled and delivered in cool boxes. The pic was stuff out of my freezer just for effect.
TH4
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You said dealer price for a 10 kilo larder weight beast was £35 to £50 that is what I was questioning no the price of the carcase broken down. I agree with you that the price broken down needs to reflect the work done skinning and butchering it. What I could not see was a dealer paying that much for a 10kg beast.
Utectok
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Cheers thanks for that
Yes
kieran222
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I think that a lot of people are looking to increase the value of the deer that they shoot by selling them as oven ready.
What amazes me is that the final price doesn't ever seem to reflect costs.
Fair enough if you really enjoy butchering and have nothing better to do with your time but I do. So wouldn't be prepared to do it for free (£15/hr) wouldn't be un reasonable up to a max of £30 total as a butcher would do it for that.
If you are going to sell oven ready venison you need to then factor in the additional cost of food business risk assessments (£500 for 5 years I think), etc. If you are on a private water supply then you have added cost of regular water testing.
A reasonable price for a butchered carcase (bones out) would be about £4.50 - £5 /lb. That's still very good value for the consumer as you could hardly get mince for that.
What amazes me is that the final price doesn't ever seem to reflect costs.
Fair enough if you really enjoy butchering and have nothing better to do with your time but I do. So wouldn't be prepared to do it for free (£15/hr) wouldn't be un reasonable up to a max of £30 total as a butcher would do it for that.
If you are going to sell oven ready venison you need to then factor in the additional cost of food business risk assessments (£500 for 5 years I think), etc. If you are on a private water supply then you have added cost of regular water testing.
A reasonable price for a butchered carcase (bones out) would be about £4.50 - £5 /lb. That's still very good value for the consumer as you could hardly get mince for that.
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